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Historical Event on 3/19/1998
E.M.S. Namboodiripad, veteran communist leader of CPM and Kerala's first Chief Minister, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 88.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/28/1883 | Shivprasad Gupta, social reformer, politician, leader, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, was born at Varanasi. |
| 4/27/1960 | Presidential orders were issued on the report of the Committee of Parliament on official Languages which includes issues relating to preparation of terminology (Hindi glossaries, Hindia translation of codes and procedural literature, imparting training in Hindi to employees propagation of Hindi, language of bills, language to be used in the Supreme Court and High Court etc). |
| 10/21/1989 | Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha and Harminder Singh alias Jinda sentenced to death for the murder of former Army Chief Gen. A. K. Vaidya. |
| 4/2/1970 | Meghalaya, an autonomous hilly state, was established after dividing the hilly areas of Assam. |
| 7/1/1992 | Truck operators begin nation-wide strike to press for the abolition of toll tax and octroi. |
| 9/16/1954 | The Lok Sabha adopted a clause in the Special Marriage Bill providing for divorce by consent. |
| 5/15/1817 | Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali social reformer and father of Rabindranath Tagore, was born. |
| 3/3/1983 | Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi. |
| 7/11/1953 | Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu was born in Mumbai (Mahatrahtra). |
| 1/2/1990 | Capt. Nivedita Bhasin, 26, becomes the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft. |
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